This was the second art workshop I attended, but decided to use an art workshop to substitute for a personal enrichment workshop since the first one I attended was very captivating. I didn’t expect the Baruch Sidney Mischkin gallery to update it’s works so often, but instead of the farmland photographs that I expected to see, there were paintings from an impessionist artist by the name of Mercedes Matter. She was strongly influenced by the impressionist movement, since her paintings did not depict anything that looks at all like the subject matter — for example, her still-lifes of fruits on a table look more like a bomb explosion than apples and pears. The gallery was divided into three separate periods — her early works on the far left, her mature works in the center, and her late works on the far right. I personally enjoyed some of her earliest works the most, since I’m not a big fan of abstract art, and like art to actually look like something recognizable as opposed to a mishmosh of colors. My favorite painting of hers is one that she painted of a flower, at age 15.
Overall, this was a educational workshop, and if there’s a freshman that doesn’t have anything to do for 15 minutes, I’d strongly reccomend going to visit.